Robert Lemos

Vulnerabilities, especially in Web applications, take off, while bot nets and their controllers cause a jump in spam, and data breaches continue to worry companies and their customers.
SecurityFocus

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission puts a suspected Russian brokerage-account thief’s money on ice, after he allegedly used illicit access to people’s portfolios to drive up stock prices.
SecurityFocus

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I normally don’t post the news briefs that I write for SecurityFocus, but this one is destined to be a classic.

A member of a Republican Congressman’s public relations staff attempted to hire two “hackers” to change a college grade, an act that resulted in his dismissal on Thursday.
SecurityFocus

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More secure operating systems mean that attackers are looking elsewhere for holes to sneak through.
PC Magazine

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So, your company’s been hit with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack involving a straight-up packet flood. Or, perhaps you’ve been hit by a distributed DoS launched from 10,000 bots controlled by an angry spammer. Or, if you are really (un)lucky, perhaps you got hit with a distributed reflective DoS attack and now need the services of [...]

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The departure of a security team member and recent data showing that PHP Web applications account for four out of every ten security flaws found in 2006 highlight the need for better protections, say experts.
SecurityFocus

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One Wired News correspondent cuts his connection to the cable company and doesn’t look back. Can the internet supply enough video programming to entertain a family of five?
Wired News

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An unknown attacker uses a security flaw to access a restricted database containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on students, faculty and staff of the University of California, Los Angeles.
SecurityFocus

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Tracfone, the company that offers a pay-as-you-go service for cell-phone users, loves the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which allowed it to block users from hacking their Tracfone phones to work with another provider. Blocked them, that is, until the provision of the law that allows the U.S. Copyright Office to create exemptions resulted in [...]

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Search and rescue teams found the body of James Kim, a senior editor at CNET Networks, in the Oregon wilderness on Wednesday. My thoughts and condolences go out to his family.

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